Bill Connelly invented all of this; check out his college football analytics blog, Football Study Hall.
But first, let’s talk a bit more about the Pistol
As their counterparts on ABC did last week, the SEC Network’s crack commentator team of Andre Ware and Tom Hart[1] brought up the Tide’s renewed emphasis on the Pistol this week, with the added nugget that Kiffin’s intent is to get Derrick Henry in particular moving downhill with the ball. On the handful[2] of plays where the network was kind enough to show us the pre-snap formation, the Tide once again operated out of the Pistol to a significant degree against Middle Tennessee, although to varying levels of success.